The vast majority of false confessions occur in the context of interrogation, and in response to the sources of distress and persuasive tactics of the interrogation. However, there are widely held mistaken assumptions that a false confessor must suffer some personal defect such as a mental disorder. In this article, we explain that many normal people may give false confessions under certain soc...

A high-speed interrogation scheme for large-scale fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensing arrays is presented. This technique employs parallel computing and pipeline control to modulate incident light and demodulate the reflected sensing signal. One Electro-optic modulator (EOM) and one semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) were used to generate a phase delay to filter reflected spectrum form multipl...

Recently, we discovered that the resonant frequency of a microstrip patch antenna is sensitive to mechanical strains or crack presence in the ground plane. Based on this principle, antenna sensors have been demonstrated to measure strain and detect crack in metallic structures. This paper presents a wireless method to remotely interrogate a dual-frequency antenna sensor. An interrogation horn a...

The primary goal of the current study was to develop a novel experimental paradigm with which to study the influence of psychologically based interrogation techniques on the likelihood of true and false confessions. The paradigm involves guilty and innocent participants being accused of intentionally breaking an experimental rule, or "cheating." In the first demonstration of this paradigm, we e...

The TEAM system was developed in the Language Services Department of Siemens in Munich. The core of the system, which is intended to provide machine aids to translation, is a multilingual terminology data bank, in which information of different nature, origin and quality is stored and processed. The aim is to make this information available in a suitable form to translators and other interested...

The random forest, a powerful machine learning algorithm, is introduced to improve the performance of silicon arrayed waveguide grating (AWG)-based fibre Bragg (FBG) wavelength interrogation. experimental results show proposed method has high interrogation accuracy with root mean squared error (RMSE) 0.73 pm in whole demodulation range.

After 9-11, the United States began interrogating detainees at settings such as Abu Ghraib, Bagram, and Guantanamo. The American Psychological Association (APA) supported psychologists' involvement in interrogations, adopted formal policies, and made an array of public assurances. This article's purpose is to highlight key APA decisions, policies, procedures, documents, and public statements in...

Future space missions are envisioned to be implemented using a flexible, distributed architecture consisting of constellations of dynamically deployed or configured space and mobile platforms that are networked together into an integrated information system, which we term an ad hoc space network. An ad hoc space network is characterized by changing topology and potentially sparse and intermitte...

Utilization of controllable ferroelectric and ferromagnetic layers coating a conducting object to provide an attenuation capability against electromagnetic interrogation is discussed. The problem is formulated as a differential game and/or a robust optimization. The scattered field due to interrogation can be attenuated with the assumption of an uncertainty in the interrogation wave numbers. Th...

Fiber Bragg gratings are widely used optical fiber sensors for measuring temperature and/or mechanical strain. Nevertheless, the high cost of the interrogation systems is the most important drawback for their large commercial application. In this work, an in-line Fabry-Perot interferometer based edge filter is explored in the interrogation of fiber Bragg grating dynamic measurements up to 5 kHz...